Find a Way (EP)
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we create melodic, energy tunes that will make you want to dance, or eat a cupcake in the front row.
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They have a Green Day meets New Found Glory meets Screeching Weasel feel, but manage
Album Description
This power pop force always gets the last response to departing girlfriends. New Found Glory meets Green Day meets Screeching Weasel. Also with a touch of the fifties. Good production. These guys ROCK. Listen a few times and you will be hooked too.
Find a Way (EP)
Find a Way (EP), Music, Last Response, This power pop force always gets the last response to departing girlfriends. New Found Glory meets Green Day meets Screeching Weasel. Also with a touch of the fifties. Good production. These guys ROCK. Listen a few times and you will be hooked too.
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- Mid-tempo rockers and ballads 3.5 out of 5
- REO Has Topped Their Best
- Home run!
- REO Greatwagon!!
- It wouldn't get any better than this...
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Find Your Own Way Home
REO Speedwagon
Manufacturer: Mailboat Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000OCY776
Release Date: 2007-04-24 |
Tracks:
- Smilin' in the End
- Find Your Own Way Home
- I Needed to Fall
- Dangerous Combination
- Lost on the Road of Love
- Another Lifetime
- Run Away Baby
- Everything You Feel
- Born to Love You
- Let My Love Find You
Customer Reviews:
Mid-tempo rockers and ballads 3.5 out of 5.......2007-07-17
I've been a fan of Reo Speedwagon since "Hi Infidelity" in late 1980 and although I preferred the seventies rock to the top forty pop direction that the band pursued in the eighties, I have to say that this is a solid release. Sure, we all wish the band would release another "Reo Two" or a hard rocking "Nine Lives" all over again, but the times have definitely changed. Since Richrath left the group, Cronin is in the driver's seat and he seems to go for a polished and contemporary mid-tempo sound. The stand out songs on this release are "Smilin' In The End," "I Needed To Fall," "Dangerous Combination," "Another Lifetime," and "Everything You Feel." I think that the sound that the band achieved on "Everything You Feel," is particularly refreshing and something new for Reo. In a perfect world, "I Needed To Fall" would be another Billboard top forty, but the band does not have the following that it did in the eighties. The only three songs that are just average are "Run Away Baby," "Born To Love You," and "Let My Love Find You." I wish that there were more guitar solos on this CD. If you need to learn about how great Reo was, then pick up "Reo Speedwagon," "Reo Two," " Nine Lives" and "You Can Tune a Piano," to find out how the underrated Gary Richrath played the Gibson Les Paul.
REO Has Topped Their Best.......2007-07-10
If you're a fan of the early REO that rocked, you'll love this album. If you're a fan of the 80's pop rock REO, than you'll learn to appreciate how good REO can be. This sounds like the uninhibited REO doing music that they love, as opposed to what a record company wants. The more you listen, the more you'll find yourself playing the whole thing again and again!
Home run!.......2007-07-02
As a REO fan from the early 80's I'm positively surprised! Great songs, brilliant musicians, slightly updated but still familiar REO Speedwagon sound, that's what you find here and more you play it, more you like it. If you manage, get yourself the 3-box set (Find Your Way Home cd, Hi Infidelity Then Again Live cd and XM Artist Confidential dvd). Live performance of Hi Infidelity is pure magic. Particularly Dave Amato really shines there.
REO Greatwagon!!.......2007-06-30
I've got to be blunt, this is one great CD. You may think that after all these years the band can no longer deliver the goods, but do they ever with this collection! From hard rockers to slow ballads, this CD has a little bit of something for everyone. The songs are quite catchy, and they leave you wanting more.
Whether you're cranking up Smilin' in the End, or slow jammin to I Needed to Fall, this is one CD you'll want to keep close by at all times.
Like I said, REO Greatwagon delivers the goods.
It wouldn't get any better than this..........2007-06-23
Please don't get me wrong. This album isn't bad at all.
It's just not REO. It doesn't sound the same, it doesn't feel the same.
REO is a classic and REO is all the fans wanted to hear. Somewhere, in a shaded distance, "I needed to fall" finds its way home and slightly brings back the powerful, unmistakable REO sound. But only for a split second and like a familiar face in the crowd, it's gone.
It's an honest album. But maybe it was never meant to be recorded.
With no computers, no fancy editing tools, the remastered version of "Hi Infidelity" is a much better choice for the hardcore REO fan. And it gets better every time you hear it. "Find your own way home" doesn't.
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- Disappointing
- Enough with the damn compilations!
- worth buying, has seven good Vangelis songs
- Excellent Overview of Vangelis' Best Known Songs
- Hip-O Records trying to make money from us
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Odyssey: The Definitive Collection
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000DHK5T
Release Date: 2003-11-04 |
Tracks:
- Pulstar
- Hymne
- Main Theme From The 'Chariots Of Fire'
- Main Theme From The 'Missing'
- Love Theme From 'Blade Runner'
- End Titles From 'Blade Runner'
- The Tao Of Love
- Theme From 'Antartica'
- Theme From 'Cavafy'
- Opening Titles From 'Mutiny On The Bounty'
- Conquest Of Paradise
- La Petite Fille De La Mer
- L'Enfant
- Alpha
- Celtic Dawn
- Movement 1 From 'Mythodea'
- I'll Find My Way Home
- State Of Independence
Album Description
18 remastered tracks including titles from 'Missing', 'Blade Runner', '1492 Conquest Of Paradise' & the Oscar-winning 'Chariots Of Fire', as well as 2 bonus tracks, 'I'll Find My Way Home' & 'State Of Independence'. Digipak. Universal. 2003.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing.......2006-08-19
I like the music, but the sound quality is terrible. I bought this CD because it was released in 2003, but there is ZERO improvement in sound quality from previous older tracks.
Enough with the damn compilations!.......2005-06-11
First of all I like Vangelis very much. However I have had it with the way that his music is being released. We are consistently given compilation releases (usually of the same tracks that are on other releases). WHAT IS THE POINT????!!
All the more frustrating is that Vangelis has a ton of unreleased music that many fans like myself have been after for years. Sorry the bootlegs on Ebay just don't cut it.
Where's an official release of "Cavafy", "The Bounty", "Francesco", and "Bitter Moon". Where is all the still unreleased music from "1492", "Blade Runner", "Antarctica" and "Chariots of fire", yes he released soundtracks for these films but they were sadly lacking.
Unfortunately we will probably have to wait for Vangelis to demise before we ever get these tracks, if even then.
worth buying, has seven good Vangelis songs.......2005-05-25
Some may complain that this is not a definitive Vangelis CD. Nope, it is far from being that, but it has seven good songs on it that make it worth purchasing for less than $20. Those seven good songs are: Hymne, Alpha, Chariots of Fire, Missing, Pulsar, Petite Fille de la Mer, and L'enfant. Of course, those are just my personal favorites.
Excellent Overview of Vangelis' Best Known Songs.......2004-06-10
It's hard to keep track of the number of compilations of Vangelis. Off the top of my head, I can think of "The Best of", "Greatest Hits", "Themes", "Portraits", and "Reprise". But they never got it right, something was always off, or one period or another of his career was not covered. Now comes "Oddisey: The Definitive Collection". While it may be pushing your luck to proclaim anything as a Vangelis "definitive" compilation", given his prolific output over the years, I am here nevertheless to tell you that this compilation is as good as it will get.
"Oddisey: The Definitive Collection" (18 tracks, 78 min.) in my opinion truly does compile all of Vangelis' best know tracks and greatest hits. Most of the tracks on here will sound immediately familiar, many because they are movie themes (Chariots of Fire being the most famous of course, but also The Missing, Blade Runner, thankfully containing both the beginning and end titles, Mutiny on the Bounty, and others), and other that became well known in commercials (Hymne, L'Enfant, among others). There can be no denying the creativity and talents of Vangelis. There are 2 bonus tracks, "I'll Find My Way Home" and "State of Independence", the 2 best known tracks of Jon & Vangelis, a nice touch to the album.
I share my frustration with other reviewers here that there is tons of great Vangelis music out there that remains unreleased. To be sure, Vangelis deserves a box-treatment of rare and unreleased tracks. But if you are looking for a single-disk overview of his best known songs, look no further: "Oddisey" is it. Released in Fall, 2003, it is a nice way to commemorate Vangelis turning 60 (say it ain't so!).
Hip-O Records trying to make money from us.......2004-04-20
Hos this company dares to call this compilation definitive collection??? Bring something new and then I'll consider your work. Shame of you!!!
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- A Slight Innacuracy
- Excelente
- Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2
- Not totally an instrumental
- Another Collection You Wonr Find Anywhere else
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Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals II
Manufacturer: Eric Collection
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ASIN: B00008L3O0
Release Date: 2003-04-22 |
Tracks:
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky') - Bill Conti
- Theme From 'Ben Casey' - Valjean
- Theme From 'The Apartment' - Ferrante & Teicher
- The Long Ships (Part 1) - Charles Albertine (mono)
- The Day The Rains Came - Raymond Lefevre (mono)
- Beautiful Obsession - Sir Chauncey
- Theme From 'The Sundowners'- Felix Slatkin
- Chariot (I Will Follow Him) - Franck Pourcel
- That's The Way With Love - Peter Soffici (mono)
- Theme From 'The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs' - Percy Faith
- Theme From 'A Man And A Woman' (from The Soundtrack) - Francis Lai
- Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
- Moonglow & Theme From 'Picnic' - George Cates (mono)
- Swinging Sweethearts - Ron Goodwin (mono)
- Ringo's Theme (This Boy) - George Martin
- Song For Anna (Chanson D'Anna) - (Herb) Ohta-San
- Nadia's Theme (The Young & The Restless) - Barry Devorzon & Perry Botkinc Jr.
- Danny Boy - Sil Austin
- Trumpeter's Prayer - Tutti Camarata
- One Moment In Time - Vienna Symphonic Orchestra (VSOP)
Album Description
A spectacular follow-up to Volume One in this instrumental series featuring 15 songs that have never been on a U.S. CD before. But this set isn't just for collectors, but also for listeners. All recordings have been digitally mastered from the original master tapes & are in True Stereo wherever possible. Includes a full 8-page booklet with detailed liner notes on each song.
Customer Reviews:
A Slight Innacuracy.......2007-06-13
The version of "Nadia's Theme" (Theme from The Young and the Restless) isn't actually the one you're expecting. I believe it's actually the original arrangement made for "Bless the Beasts and the Children". So what later became the Young and the Restless theme (the one that was a hit) still remains unreleased on CD.
Hopefully, we can see that version on a future release. Maybe they could get "Little Ballerina Blue" on one while they're at it.
Still, some great stuff here.
Excelente .......2007-03-22
El tema de nadia es una de las canciones mas excelentes de la historia de la musica
Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2.......2006-03-22
The purchase went as we had hoped. The delievry was as promised, and the quality of the product equal too, or above our expectations.
Not totally an instrumental.......2006-03-10
I was excited to find this album. I bought it but was horrified to find a loud vocal on the first track. The rest of the music is all instrumental but this one track simply JARS you when it plays. Very disappointing!
Another Collection You Wonr Find Anywhere else.......2003-05-06
Well, ERIC records has done it again.
Continuing their unique practice of giving us both well known hits and impossible to find rarities, Eric presents Volume 2 of "Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals". This one is, in my opinion, even better than the first.
First off, the sound quality of this disk is ASTOUNDING. ERIC has gotten the various reissue departments to provide them with absolute first generation mono and stereo masters and this CD proves it. The aural quality is breathtaking. The fact that Orchestral music is so beautifully suited for true stereo playback is exhibited here, as a whopping 15 of the 20 tracks are True Stereo and sound magnificent.
There are, of course, the big soundtrack hits here, like 'The Day The Rains Came" "Rocky", "Ben Casey", "Theme from The Apartment", and " Nadias Theme". All top 30 and well remembered. However, for this 43 year old fan, it was the some of the lessor known tracks, in particulatr the 1963 Colpix low level charter "Theme From The Long Ships" that really makes this collection the gem that it is. Outstanding tracks include "Theme From The Sundowners" , "The Dark At The Top of The Stairs" and "I Will Follow Him" , all tracks that will suddenly sound familiar again after first listen.
Therein lies the BEST part of this collection. When you put this on your player, you will be treated to a nostalgic feast,
a time when the magic of Orchestral music still ruled the charts, and existed in all our homes. And you'll certainly remember most of these once you hear them, which is the fun part!!
There arent enough great things I can say about this collection AND its sister CD "Hard To Find pop Instrumentals- Part 2" I personally liked this volume better, but if you dont have either yet, give yourself a musical treat, and some REAL listening enjoyment and pick these up...
Its listening the way it used to be.
MA....
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- Dreamgirls 2001
- Not the real "DREAM" experience
- Absolutely brilliant!
- Amazing!!!!!!
- One Night Only
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Dreamgirls in Concert (2001 Concert Cast)
Henry Krieger , Audra McDonald , Brian Stokes Mitchell , Emily Skinner , and Darius de Haas
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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ASIN: B00005Y4P4
Release Date: 2002-02-26 |
Tracks:
- I'm Looking for Something, Baby
- Goin' Downtown
- Takin' the Long Way Home
- Move (You're Steppin on My Heart)
- Scene: Fifty bucks says the Dreamettes don't win
- Fake Your Way to the Top
- Scene: It ain't working, Marty
- Cadillac Car
- Cadillac Car (On the Road)
- Cadillac Car (Recording Studio)
- Scene: I don't believe they can do that
- Steppin' to the Bad Side
- Scene: I'm working on a long shot
- Party, Party
- I Want You, Baby
- Scene: I'm a woman now
- Family
- Scene: What are you doing to that girl?
- Dreamgirls
- Press Conference
- Heavy
- Walkin' Down the Strip/Scene: Las Vegas
- It's All Over
- And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Tracks:
- Opening Act II: Dreams Medley
- Scene: Effie White is the best singer you're gonna find
- I Am Changing
- Vogue Sequence
- When I First Saw You
- Ain't No Party
- I Meant You No Harm
- The Rap
- I Miss You, Old Friend
- One Night Only
- One Night Only (Disco Version)
- I'm Somebody
- Hard to Say Good-bye
- Dreamgirls (Reprise)
Amazon.com
A Chorus Line may be better known, but Dreamgirls was a towering achievement for director Michael Bennett. Loosely based on the Supremes' story, the 1982 musical told a typical show-biz tale of fame, backbiting, and survival. As is often the case for one-night only events, the cast in this concert version (recorded in New York on September 24, 2001) is led by an eye-popping assortment of Broadway powerhouses: Lillias White (The Life), Audra McDonald (Ragtime, Marie Christine), and Heather Headley (Ragtime). McDonald reveals a previously undisclosed comic streak, while Headley confirms her status as a rising star. Reprising the role of Effie Melody White (created by Jennifer Holliday), White belts the classic "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." But the beauty of Dreamgirls is that it's so packed with catchy, Motown-influenced R&B numbers that each lead can sink her teeth into some prime material and get a turn in the spotlight. This double-CD set really makes you wish you'd been there when the show was recorded: you can hear the crowd going berserk at times, and the temptation is strong to do the same thing in the comfort of your living room. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Customer Reviews:
Dreamgirls 2001.......2007-06-27
This was the worst reproduction of Dreamgirls that I ever heard. I was so disappointed the CD went into the garbage. This is one CD that I would not sell to the public because I expect so much and get so little.
Not the real "DREAM" experience.......2007-04-04
Forget about the film sountrack. Get this CD set. And it's far better than the original cast recording which goes lacking. More songs and more everything that makes a live performance just what it is. Live (compared to film where anything can be done to enhance a performance!) -- the energy, the excitement and the performances make this a rare treat for anyone wanting to share in the real DREAM experience.
Isn't a full Broadway revival long over due. But wait: I've heard rumors that a rvial may be "in the works. I certainly hope so. Maybe this time it will receive the Tony award it deserved in the first place.
Absolutely brilliant!.......2007-01-28
There is atleast 5 new songs on this album that were not in the movie! These girls kill it I mean they are just amazing singers, and this all live! This is needed for any Dreamgirls fanatic like me! You are gonna love it! Enjoy! love live laugh :)
Amazing!!!!!!.......2006-12-04
As a theatre lover, this recording is amazing. I actually prefer this recording to the OBC. Sheryl Lee Ralph is okay, but can't touch Audra's Deena. The first time I heard Ms. White's "And I Am Telling You..", goosbumps all over my body. The only weak cast member in my opinon is Heather Headly. Vocally, she just isn't there. Too much Aida, not enough Dreamgirls. But all in all, a great live recording of a great show.
One Night Only .......2006-07-19
I was lucky enough to attend this One Night Only concert performance of Dreamgirls and it was a night I will never forget!! The cast was brilliant and the cd is as good if not better than the Broadway cast recording because it is the entire show not just the songs. Bravo to everyone involved !!!
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Love Will Find Its Own Way: The Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Manufacturer: Sony Legacy
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Disco
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ASIN: B000PLCMPA
Release Date: 2007-07-16 |
Tracks:
- Every Beat of My Heart
- Letter Full of Tears
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Friendship Train
- If I Were Your Woman
- Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
- Midnight Train to Georgia
- I've Got to Use My Imagination
- Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
- On and On
- I Feel a Song (In My Heart)
- Love Finds Its Own Way
- Way We Were/Try to Remember
- Part Time Love
- Save the Overtime (For Me)
- Hero (A-K-A Wind Beneath My Wings)
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- The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?
- Very, very truncated.
- incomplete pleasure
- Finally available on CD!
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Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill
Victor Herbert , Kenny Baker , and Eileen Farrell
Manufacturer: Decca Broadway
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00006AWG2
Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
Tracks:
- Opening - From Babes in Toyland (Herbert & MacDonough) with Kenny Baker and Karen Kemple
- Toyland
- Floretta
- Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep
- March of the Toys
- I Can't Do the Sum
- Go To Sleep, Slumber Deep
- Song of the Poet
- The Military Ball
- Hail to Christmas
- Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It and March of the Toys
- When You're Pretty and the World Is Fair - From The Red Mill (Blossom & Herbert) with Wilbur Evans, Eileen Farrell, and Felix Knight
- Moonbeams
- In the Isle of Our Dreams
- Because You're You
- Every Day is Ladies' Day With me
- The Streets of New York
Customer Reviews:
The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?.......2005-06-22
Is any recorded, tenor, singing voice as lovely as Kenny Baker's? As a child, I often heard him during the 1930s on the Jack Benny show, but have scarcely thought of him since. Amazon.com offers him on four CDs: BABES IN TOYLAND, LOVE WALKED IN, THE STARLIT HOUR and WEILL FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY. Over the years, I have heard the recorded voices of many tenors, mostly operatic. Their fine voices were excellently trained, often to a wider range and more difficult music. But note for note, their sound as recorded is not I think as sheerly beautiful as Kenny Baker's. A splendid, unspoiled, unstrained, natural gift, put to disciplined and tasteful use! His enunciation is remarkably clear, and his musical line, perfectly smooth. He makes each song a different story, as in the six pieces here from BABES IN TOYLAND.
My claim is easy to test. This website has CDs with excerpts for listening to the best tenors of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Richard Tauber, Richard Crooks, Jussi Bjoerling, Morton Downey, Mario Lanza, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Jan Peerce, Leopold Simoneau, Fritz Wunderlich, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Of course, the earlier the career, the greater the damage to the recorded voice from primitive technology. Heard live, who knows which voice was most beautiful? But at least we have what earlier centuries could only imagine: lasting copies of live performances. Listen to Kenny Baker's voice on tracks 2 and 8 of BABES IN TOYLAND, and then compare.
The numbers from THE RED MILL will make you want to hear more. This operetta, also composed by Victor Herbert, was first produced in 1906, three years after BABES IN TOYLAND. "Moonbeams" (well sung by Eileen Farrell) is lovely; "Because You're You" (a duet between Farrell and Felix Knight) is quite simple but surprisingly affecting. The last two are the best: "Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me," and "In Old New York." They are patter songs, perhaps inspired by, and surely as deft, as the ones that Gilbert and Sullivan were writing two decades earlier. Both are sung by Wilbur Evans, in a rich baritone, with perfect enunciation and marvelous comic flair. Great fun!
The selections on this CD were recorded in 1944 and 1945, then released in 1946 on both 78s and 10" LPs. For this CD, they were remastered from wartime lacquered-glass originals. Baker and Evans emerge in radiant form, surely much closer to live sound than reached our family radio via AM transmission 65 years ago. The orchestral and choral sound is less attractive. Poorly miked?
Very, very truncated........2002-12-09
The scores of Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" and "The Red Mill" are lovely classics, but the incomplete scores represented by this Decca Broadway remastering of its antiquated 78s are not the best reprentation. My advice: wait for the John McGlinn "Babes in Toyland" to be released. As for "The Red Mill", you'd do better to pick up the Ohio Light Opera's double-CD from Albany Records.
incomplete pleasure.......2002-11-09
Two terrible mistakes keep this from 5 stars.. BABES IN TOYLAND is not complete as they are missing the delightful IN THE TOYMAKER'S WORKSHOP. Why? In THE RED MILL they use a butchered take of EVERY DAY IS LADIES DAY WITH ME. Again, why?
John McGlinn will be out with a complete BABES soon - and there is a lot of music in it - so you may want to wait.
Finally available on CD!.......2002-08-01
Decca's 1946 album of selections from Victor Herbert's celebrated musical was a welcome addition to record libraries, covering most of the major songs plus some of the delightful dance music. The album was reissued as a ten-inch Lp in 1949. A later reissue in 1957 dropped 4 songs to fit the score on one side of a twelve-inch Lp backed by six selections from Herbert's THE RED MILL. That pairing is reproduced here but the CD contains the complete BABES IN TOYLAND program! It's nice to have it back too! Nice of Decca to give us this early Christmas present this year. But BABES IN TOYLAND is a score that enchants all year round. How strange that no other complete recording exists.
The six selections form THE RED MILL offer a nice bonus, and the selections are well sung.
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- what a comeback!
- Music Fans Couldn't Ask For More!
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Find Your Own Way Home (Box Set)
REO Speedwagon
Manufacturer: Speedwagon Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000P5C4VS |
Product Description
Boxed Set Includes 2 CD's + Bonus Unplugged - DVD & Live Enhanced CD!
Find Your Way Home - CD
Then Again - Live - CD
XM Artist Confidential - DVD
Customer Reviews:
what a comeback!.......2007-04-14
I have also been a fan of REO Speedwagon for many many years. But as a fan, I don't just blindly say that everything the band records is better than the last thing they did.
However, this is! This CD is something special. There was a lot of potential for this to not live up to the likes of Hi Infidelity or the Tuna record. It is hard to top those. But REO fan aside, I do believe this does. There is a crafty mix of rockin tunes (Smilin' in the end, Everything you feel) to slower power ballads (I needed to fall, Find your own way home) to name a couple.
"Everything you feel" sounds like a lost late 70s REO song, with a fresh new edge to me. Listening to it makes you feel like you're on an amusement park ride and when it's over, you get off the ride with a feeling of "Wow, that was fun!"
The CD takes the listener on a journey from the first to the last song. Like reading a good book. I absolutely love it and cannot stop listening to it. If this does not get radio play, then I will have lost the little bit of faith I have left in the radio station production business, or whoever is responsible for what gets air time and what doesn't.
If you are a REO fan you will love this. If not, you will become one after a listen.
Not to mention the extra two CDs. The unplugged XM radio concert DVD and the Hi Infidelity live then again recording as a bonus. However, the true gem is the brand new CD "Find your own way home".
Music Fans Couldn't Ask For More!.......2007-04-12
As a long time REO fan, I was beginning to think that maybe their recording days were over. It had been 11 years since Building the Bridge came out. I really liked that album, but it seemed like they were still trying to find their sound. NOT with this album! REO is back with a vengeance, as evidenced by harder edged tracks such as "Smilin' in the End". This whole album is very worthy of getting major airplay. Of course, REO are known for their polished ballads, and there are plenty of those as well... "I Needed to Fall", "Everything You Feel", and "Let My Love Find You" stand up well to any classic REO songs. Plus, with this box set, the band practically gives away a new live recording of the whole classic Hi-Infidelity album, with the current lineup, as well as an unplugged DVD- XM Artist Confidential! REO has always gone above and Beyond for their fans, and this project is no exception. If you can't find the box set, because they were only sold at Wal-Mart in limited numbers, I would HIGHLY encourage you to buy the single cd. Like I said, I have been a lifelong REO fan, but I am not talking just as a fan here. This is a bonafide hit album... or at least it deserves to be. If you're a music fan, it should be in your collection. It would be a shame if this doesn't get the praise it deserves!
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- Sweet Exorcist/Got to Find a Way
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Sweet Exorcist/Got to Find a Way
Curtis Mayfield
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soul
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000FMH0A6
Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
Album Description
Two albums on one CD by one of Soul Music's finest and most gifted songwriter/performers. Both Sweet Exorcist and Got To Find A Way were released in 1974 on Mayfield's own Curtom label, with both making the Billboard national album chart. 13 tracks. Charly. 2006.
Customer Reviews:
Sweet Exorcist/Got to Find a Way.......2007-03-14
The Music was classic Curtis, It had his poignant soul stirring rhythm and his deep and relevant social themes.
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- No "Foster's Van"?
- Greatness & Imperfection
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Find the Way Out
The Boo Radleys
Manufacturer: Sanctuary UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Britpop
| British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Dream Pop
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Shoegazing
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Britain
| British Isles
| Europe
| International
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
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ASIN: B00077372O
Release Date: 2005-07-04 |
Tracks:
- Catweazle
- Happens to Us All
- Hip Clown Rag [Demo Version]
- Kaleidoscope
- Finest Kiss
- Everybird
- Lazy Day
- Spaniard
- Does This Hurt?
- Sunfly II: Walking with the Kings
- Buffalo Bill
- Lazarus
- Let Me Be Your Faith
- Best Lose the Fear
- I Hang Suspended
- I've Lost the Reason
- Wish I Was Skinny
- Cracked Lips/Homesick
- Barney (...and Me)
- It's Lulu
Tracks:
- Wake Up Boo!: Music for Astronauts
- Blues for George Michael
- Find the Answer Within
- Joel
- Reaching Out from Here
- From the Bench at Belvidere
- Almost Nearly There
- What's in the Box? (See Watcha Got)
- Four Saints
- C'mon Kids
- Ride the Tiger
- Tomorrow [#]
- Blueroom in Archway
- Free Huey
- Kingsize
Album Description
Compiled in conjunction with the band, this sumptuous 2-CD package features key albums tracks, newly remastered singles, b-side rarities and unreleased gems spanning the 1990s. With deluxe packaging and artwork by the Boo's original designer, Stephen Wood, this is set to be the ultimate package, boasting all of their many Top 75 hits, from the Top 10 favorite 'Wake Up Boo' to the indie anthem 'Lazarus'. In addition to the best of their Creation recordings (1992-1998), the set includes six rare pre-Creation tracks for the Action and Rough Trade labels, including selections from their valuable debut album Ichabod And I. In short, this is a must of indie fans everywhere. Castle Music. 2005.
Album Details
This Anthology, Put Together with the Full Support of the Band, Brings Together their Singles, B-sides, Rarities and Other Previously Unreleased Gems Making it a Must for Indie Fans Everywhere.
Customer Reviews:
No "Foster's Van"?.......2006-06-02
What? One of their greatest swirly songs has not been included? Curses!
Still, a worthwhile compilation from a worthwhile band....
Greatness & Imperfection.......2005-08-04
You probably know what the band sounds like already. Support them with your cash; they deserve it. I'm focusing here a bit more on the arguments made for the band's legacy in the collection itself, verbally and musically. A Creation compilation following the wake of a great Swervedriver one, this is handsomely presented and thoughtfully sequenced.
The excellent liner notes perhaps make a stronger case for the Boo Radleys than I, a longtime fan, would justify. Brian Block gives an overview of the band's ascension via the grittier shoegazing/fuzzy guitar cohorts to more eclectic popsters, to briefly chart-topping fab four Scousers, to again grittier mixers of beats and harshness into their polychromatic textures. Extra points to Block for putting the band's scope next to not only XTC but The Loud Family, an overlooked array of genii from Northern California you all must hear. Keith Cameron sensitively charts the band's rise and decline, although, like Block, I think he gives the latter part of the band's output too much credit and diminishes the appeal of their grottier early shambling noise--"Everything's" a far better album than both reviewers in the notes rate, and I prefer it actually as a whole to "Giant Steps," although that album has the band's best songs.
The selections here take six songs from the very first stage of the band, which is my primary reason for purchasing the anthology, as well as some extended mixes, which frankly outwear their welcome, and a few often very short interludes tracked as separate songs. For those who have followed the band and have the albums and many of the e.p.'s, this is best bought for the impressive notes appended by Martin Carr's own reflections on each of the 35 tracks. I prefer the first to the second disc, as I favor the more guitar-oriented, less danceable side of the band. Disc two's first half sounds like McCartney, the latter part John Lennon, as they try to blend Beatleish reverie and angst, respectively, with a more hip--but more diffused and lumpishly cluttered--sound that in my opinion (the notes suggest this) shows the band floundering in the wake of Oasis/Blur's mid-90s Britpop. While more adventurous than Disc One, it hasn't worn as well, although hearing the title track of what I regard their failed last album here does make an eloquent case for the band's command of craft up to their end.
Still, 5 stars for presentation, three at most for Disc Two and four for Disc One, so I'll average it thus.
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- There are worse things in life
- Sanders takes on the Quiet Storm.
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Love Will Find a Way
Pharoah Sanders
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Avant Garde & Free Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000A7BB9C
Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Love Will Find A Way
- Pharomba
- Love Is Here
- Got To Give It Up
- As You Are
- Answer Me My Love
- Everything I Have Is Good
Product Description
1. Love Will Find A Way
2. Pharomba
3. Love Is Here
4. Got to Give It Up
5. As You Are
6. Answer Me My Love
7. Everything I Have Is Good
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
There are worse things in life.......2006-08-25
... than this admittedly softer, more radio-friendly incarnation of Pharoah. But like fellow saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Little Rock native's sound ( and compositional approach) remains intact-occasionally sappy trappings notwithstanding... Like middle age, this date has grown on me.
Sanders takes on the Quiet Storm........2005-10-25
In one of the great "what the heck happened" moments, free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders took a bizarre detour in the late '70s to smokey r&b-- "The Quiet Storm". It had been quite a while since he recorded at the time this was released, and no doubt that usual accusations of commercial sellout were distributed. As is often the case, the truth is somewhere in between.
Sanders' playing, like Albert Ayler's nearly a decade before, is actually far more remarkably suited for this sort of playing that anyone would guess-- his gentle, delicate soprano blends nicely with soft synths and his tenor playing can be expressive and warm or fierce to fit the mood of a given piece. Along the way, his former drummer who now was emerging as a vocalist, Norman Connors and Phyllis Hyman contribute vocals to several tracks.
The result is pretty mixed-- sometimes the magic of Pharoah Sanders' playing surfaces ("Pharomba"), but by and large, the pieces are pretty much sweet r&b and it seems at times that once it starts cooking, the vocals grow increasingly at odds with the leader's work ("Love is Here"). And certainly at least one song drifts way deep into pop and r&b ("Answer Me My Love", "Got to Give It Up") and doesn't fit Sanders at all. Still, he proves surprisingly sensitive ("Love Will Find a Way") and passionate ("Everything I Have is Good") at times, and sinks well into the groove the music calls for. And certainly "Pharomba" sits comfortably alongside anything Sanders has done.
It's not a bad record, and certainly Sanders' playing is every bit as passionate and fiery as on the early material, but in the end, it is a detour, both for the artist and the listener. I find it fairly pleasant listen, but keep in mind I love Ayler's "New Grass", and it doesn't particularly bother me when musicians try new things. If you're curious, try it out, but be warned-- it's likely not what you expect.
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- Fitzcarraldo [Soundtrack]
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Music
music
Music
Essential
London Symphony Orchestra: Karl Böhm, Salzburg Festival 1973-1977 [Box set]
Moods, Impressions & Reminiscences, Opp. 44 & 47
Middle of the Road
Maximum [Import]
Pcd [Import]
Love Songs [Import]
Live Oak: Flemish Song in the Courts of Europe
Live at the Fabulous Satellite Lounge [Live]
Mas de Mi Alma
Moon & the Melodies [Import]
La Gran Dama De La Cancion Espanola 1940 - 48 [Box set] [Import]
Manhattan Nites [Import]
II D Extreme
Out Cold